
With the summer temperature pattern locked in on hot and humid and feeling more like it's over 100 degrees, Wake County announced the opening up of cooling stations.
Extreme heat and high humidity can be dangerous to anyone, but particularly to the elderly, infants, and young children, persons with disabilities, and people on medication for chronic health problems.
Sites that are not normally open to the public, such as EMS stations, fire stations, and county fleet maintenance buildings, will not be available as cooling stations.
Here's a list of places to take a break from the heat: